Andrew Lafont's Posts - Atheist Nexus2015-03-03T19:02:27ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafonthttp://api.ning.com/files/0FG-cqmtdQVaELK87wJyFxw7-aN5GiDPRHz38qr0O0sEQEgwH6KDq1sJWl1XnxHoADDu5QBy*kc0kJAdlsPdOxGZ-HTYh2zn/simboloateo.png?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=1wsy916yqnx3n&xn_auth=noJerusalem as an International city?tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2011-10-27:2182797:BlogPost:17118432011-10-27T04:51:53.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<p>It seems simple, but it is hard to achieve.</p>
<p>We all know of the Religious killing each other over Israel and Jerusalem in particular. The Israelis have their state, the Palestinians want to have their own state. Lines have been drawn in the sand, nations of the world are backing either the Israelis or the Palestinians. Fighting for Jerusalem has caused the city to be split into sections.</p>
<p>However, it seems that the answer is quite clear.</p>
<p>Why doesn't the UN simply make…</p>
<p>It seems simple, but it is hard to achieve.</p>
<p>We all know of the Religious killing each other over Israel and Jerusalem in particular. The Israelis have their state, the Palestinians want to have their own state. Lines have been drawn in the sand, nations of the world are backing either the Israelis or the Palestinians. Fighting for Jerusalem has caused the city to be split into sections.</p>
<p>However, it seems that the answer is quite clear.</p>
<p>Why doesn't the UN simply make Jerusalem an international city? It would be free from being torn apart by the 'warring factions' and it would be under the influence of the UN, so no one can get angry over one side or the other having it.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>Defeating the Bible , One chapter at a Time! (Genesis Chapter 4)tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-12-18:2182797:BlogPost:10579302010-12-18T03:21:30.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
Chapter 4 hath arrived!!<br />
Let’s groove tonight!!<br />
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“The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the LORD." Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil, while Abel, for his part, brought one of the best firstlings of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on…
Chapter 4 hath arrived!!<br />
Let’s groove tonight!!<br />
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“The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the LORD." Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil, while Abel, for his part, brought one of the best firstlings of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not. Cain greatly resented this and was crestfallen. So the LORD said to Cain: "Why are you so resentful and crestfallen?”<br />
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Huzzuah! A boy is born!! With the help of the ‘LORD’? Was the ‘LORD’ the doctor or did he. . . sleep with Eve. ‘God’ is bisexual? First there is Cain then Abel. ‘God’ likes Abel more than Cain, so Cain naturally gets jealous. “‘Why are you so resentful and crestfallen?’” Is ‘God’ really that thickheaded? ‘God’ is showing support for one son and not the other. Is this the start of a fetish ‘God’ starts? He always goes for the shepherd boy. The two famous examples are Abel and then Moses. In fact there are a lot of shepherd boys, that ‘God’ “reveals” himself to. Ick!<br />
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“If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master." Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out in the field." When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" The LORD then said: "What have you done! Listen: your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil! Therefore you shall be banned from the soil that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. If you till the soil, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a restless wanderer on the earth." Cain said to the LORD: "My punishment is too great to bear. Since you have now banished me from the soil, and I must avoid your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, anyone may kill me at sight." Not so!" the LORD said to him. "If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged sevenfold." So the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest anyone should kill him at sight. Cain then left the LORD'S presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.”<br />
What does that first line mean? If you do well, that’s good; but if not, then sin will take you over. Great words of encouragement there, Cain . . . Abel is dead. NOOOOOOOoOoOoOooooOoOOOooOooooo *cough* OooOOoooo!!!!!!!!! God: “Where is Abel? I need to reveal myself to him *snicker, snicker*” Cain: “idk.” Question, if the ‘LORD God’ knows everything why must he ask where Abel is? So now Cain cannot grow anything, his green thumb has turned black, and on top of it all he is banished to—what am I reading that right? Cain is banished to NOD??? I was RIGHT!!! Eden was green because of Tiberium! Where is GDI? Wait if Adam and Eve and Cain are the only people on the earth, why should Cain fear someone killing him. ‘Lest anyone should kill him on sight.’ Who is this everyone? There’s no one else on earth!!<br />
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“Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch. To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech. Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who dwell in tents and keep cattle. His brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the pipe. Zillah, on her part, gave birth to Tubalcain, the ancestor of all who forge instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my utterance: I have killed a man for wounding me, a boy for bruising me. If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold." Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she called Seth. "God has granted me more offspring in place of Abel," she said, "because Cain slew him." To Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to invoke the LORD by name.”<br />
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz—Huh? What? So sorry, there, I must have dozed off. So yea, many people were born, got it. Jabal is the ancestor of all those who live in tents and have cattle; the working dude. And another thing, if they are in a city, why are there should be no tents, and just how did the people learn this? Jubal, the ancestor of instruments; the music dude. Tubalcain forges instruments. Really? Are the instruments of war? Swords are from iron and shields are from bronze. How did Cain’s kids suddenly know how to do iron and bronze-working , or even where to find iron and bronze? Ah, Lamech, or as I like to call him ‘blanky-blank’. And more plagiarism: Seth was the Egyptian god of the desert, storm, and violence. And just where are all these women coming from? Did Cain have…sex with Eve? Ew! Major, Major EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!<br />
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Chapter 4 is done!<br />
Tune in next time for the continuing adventure in:<br />
“Defeating the Bible—One Chapter at a time”!Obama is Christian?!tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-08-19:2182797:BlogPost:9501832010-08-19T20:12:28.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100819/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_poll_obama_s_religion">WASHINGTON – The White House insisted on Thursday that President Barack Obama is a Christian who prays daily as it looked to tamp down growing doubts among Americans about the president's religion.…</a></i></span></div>
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A little section on my next story. Enjoy!<div><br></br></div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“I understand you have been asking questions about the ‘Unbelievers’,” The Grand Father asks me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">I nod my head, “Yes, I have,” and as an afterthought I add, “Grand Father.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Grand Father nods his,…</p>
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A little section on my next story. Enjoy!<div><br/></div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">“I understand you have been asking questions about the ‘Unbelievers’,” The Grand Father asks me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">I nod my head, “Yes, I have,” and as an afterthought I add, “Grand Father.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Grand Father nods his, “I see.” He walks over to the tapestry on the wall. It depicts The Holy Lord being placed upon a
cross and being lit ablaze. “This is The<br />
Holy Lord. He sacrificed Himself to the<br />
flame of men, in order to save them from the burn. After His Holy death, He rose from the<br />
Beyond to raise into the Kingdom of the Grand Master, His divine Father.” The Grand Father turns to me. He motions for me to follow. I stand my ground. He sighs and snaps his fingers. The electronic collar around my neck springs<br />
to life and a sudden jolt shocks through my body. I jump, yelp, and practically run to the<br />
Grand Father; he smiles. I hold back<br />
from swearing and follow after him.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Humanity is stubborn. Even when the entire world
believes in one thing, a portion of Humanity believes in another. This is where the ‘Unbelievers’ come into the<br />
picture,” The Grand Father sneers over the word ‘Unbeliever’. “The ‘Unbelievers’ are wrong in their belief,<br />
and they must be shown the light of—“</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“By ‘shown the light’ you mean killed, right?” I
interrupt the Grand Father. He turns<br />
around to me, in shock. “The ‘Unbelievers’<br />
have facts on their side. They can show<br />
and tell us how the world was made! They<br />
have reason and logic on their side!” I wet<br />
my lips before speaking—or rather yelling—my next words. “The Grand Master and The Holy Lord, they . .<br />
. they are tyrants! They want complete<br />
control over everything and everyone. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><br />
</span>The ‘Unbelievers’ taught me a word. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><br />
</span>It fits you and your religion! Totalitarianism.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Grand Father’s face changes from shock to rage. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>He slaps me across my face, sends me down into the cool marble floor. “I am the Grand Father, boy! You would do to respect me! I will see you die for your crimes!” He kicks me in my stomach and leaves me<br />
there. I begin to cry.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">A man is standing over me; is it the Grand Father’s servant Nubile Serve. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>He pulls me to my feet, deactivates the electric collar, and smiles down<br />
on me. “The Unbelievers thank you for standing up to him. We offer you a position within our<br />
Organization.” He offers his hand to<br />
me. I take it.</p>
</div>Atheist billboard defaced on N.C.'s Billy Graham Parkwaytag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-06-29:2182797:BlogPost:8864122010-06-29T23:30:00.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i>"Unknown vandals unhappy about atheists' billboard in Charlotte, N.C., spray-painted "Under God" on the ad, the city's atheist association discovered Monday. The defaced message will remain in place until after July 4, the group reports, which is the soonest that workers can furnish a fresh billboard image."…</i></span>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Fresh new from North Carolina. Billboards have been vandalized, the words "Under God" have been added to a billboard that has "One Nation Indivisible". The latest of Theistic Slander against Atheist and/or Secular Organizations.</span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">What should we do fellow Non-Believers? Shall we continue to sit by, or shall we do something about this vandalism?</span></font></div>The Lone Star Statetag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-05-22:2182797:BlogPost:8307532010-05-22T00:00:00.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
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A bit of disturbing news on this side of the pond.<div><div><br></br></div>
<div>In the USA, Texas, has adopted a new social studies curriculum.</div>
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A bit of disturbing news on this side of the pond.<div><div><br/></div>
<div>In the USA, Texas, has adopted a new social studies curriculum.</div>
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Just a little note<div><br/></div>
<div>I "The-Defeating-The-Bible-One-Chapter-at-a-Time" Guy, is now on YouTube</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0c8fyQmMo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0c8fyQmMo</a></div>
<div>My Introduction Video</div>
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<div>Viva Atheism!</div>
Just a little note<div><br/></div>
<div>I "The-Defeating-The-Bible-One-Chapter-at-a-Time" Guy, is now on YouTube</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0c8fyQmMo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0c8fyQmMo</a></div>
<div>My Introduction Video</div>
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<div>Viva Atheism!</div>True Prieststag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-04-05:2182797:BlogPost:7815162010-04-05T02:30:00.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
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<div>True Priests</div>Conservapediatag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-03-28:2182797:BlogPost:7733732010-03-28T01:29:23.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
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<dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>See main article: <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Causes_of_Atheism" title="Causes of Atheism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Causes of Atheism</a></i></dd>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Moral depravity:</i></b> <i>The history of the atheist community and various studies regarding the atheist community point to moral depravity being a causal factor for atheism.</i><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-132" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[133]</i></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-133" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[134]</i></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-134" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[135]</i></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-135" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[136]</i></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-136" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[137]</i></a></sup> <i>In addition, there is the historical matter of</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_deception" title="Atheism and deception" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>deceit being used in a major way to propagate atheism from the time of Charles Darwin onward.</i></a> <i>The</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Bible" title="Bible" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Bible</i></a> <i>asserts that "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good."</i> <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20gen%201:30%20;&amp;version=49;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20gen%201:30%20;&amp;version=49;" rel="nofollow"><i>(Psalms 14:1 (KJV)).</i></a> <i>The biblical fool is said to be lacking in sound judgment and the biblical fool is also associated with moral depravity. For example, the biblical book of</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Proverbs" title="Proverbs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Proverbs</i></a><i>states: "A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, But a fool is arrogant and careless. A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, And a man of evil devices is hated. The naive inherit foolishness, But the sensible are crowned with knowledge."</i><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20proverbs%2014:16-18%20;&amp;version=49;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20proverbs%2014:16-18%20;&amp;version=49;" rel="nofollow"><i>(Proverbs 14:16-18 (NASB)).</i></a> <i>The book of Proverbs also has strong words regarding the depravity of biblical fools: "The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to depart from evil."</i> <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2013:19;&amp;version=9;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2013:19;&amp;version=9;" rel="nofollow"><i>(Proverbs 13:9 (KJV))</i></a><i>. Regarding the deceitfulness of fools Proverbs states: "The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way, But the foolishness of fools is</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Deceit" title="Deceit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>deceit</i></a><i>."</i> <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2014:8;&amp;version=9;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2014:8;&amp;version=9;" rel="nofollow"><i>(Proverbs 14:8 (KJV)).</i></a> <i>Noted Bible commentator and clergyman</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Matthew_Henry" title="Matthew Henry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Matthew Henry</i></a> <i>wrote regarding atheism: "A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Earth" title="Earth" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>world</i></a><i>, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Sun" title="Sun" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>sun</i></a><i>."</i><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-137" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[138]</i></a></sup></li>
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<i>Noted</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Ex-atheists" title="Ex-atheists" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>ex-atheist</i></a> <i>and psychologist Dr.</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Paul_Vitz" title="Paul Vitz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Paul Vitz</i></a></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Rebellion:</i></b> <i>Atheism stems from a deliberate choice to ignore the reality of God's existence</i><sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-138" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[139]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Naiveté/Gullibility</i></b><i>: Many atheists have embraced a number of far fetched, unworkable, and errant notions and ideologies such as</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Communism" title="Communism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>communism</i></a><i>,</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Origin_of_Life" title="Origin of Life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>abiogenesis</i></a><i>, and</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution" title="Evolution" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>evolution</i></a> <i>despite abundant evidence of their falsity.</i></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Irrational thinking</i></b><i>: As noted earlier, a comprehensive study by Baylor University found that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>pseudoscience</i></a> <i>than evangelical Christians.</i><sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-139" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[140]</i></a></sup> <i>Also, as noted above, a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer found irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born again Christian college students were found to be the least likely.</i><sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-140" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[141]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Superficiality:</i></b> <i>Noted ex-atheist and psychologist Dr.</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Paul_Vitz" title="Paul Vitz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Paul Vitz</i></a> <i>has stated that he had superficial reasons for becoming an atheist such as the desire to be accepted by his</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Stanford&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Stanford (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 34, 0); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Stanford</i></a> <i>professors who were united in disbelief regarding God.</i><sup id="cite_ref-vitz_141-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-vitz-141" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[142]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Error:</i></b> <i>Some argue that atheism partly stems from a failure to fairly and judiciously consider the facts</i><sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-142" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[143]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>State churches:</i></b> <i>Rates of atheism are much higher in countries with a state sanctioned religion (such as many European countries), and lower in states without a sanctioned religion (such as the United States). Some argue this is because state churches become bloated, corrupt, and/or out of touch with the religious intuitions of the population, while churches independent of the state are leaner and more adaptable. It is important to distinguish "state-sanctioned churches," where participation is voluntary, from "state-mandated churches" (such as Saudi Arabia) with much lower atheism rates because publicly admitted atheism is punishable by death.</i><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-143" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[144]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Self-deception</i></b><sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-144" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[145]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Satan" title="Satan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Satanic</i></a> <i>deception</i></b> <sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-145" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[146]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Poor relationship with father:</i></b> <i>Some argue that a troubled/non-existent relationship with a father may influence one towards holding the position of atheism.</i><sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-146" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[147]</i></a></sup> <i>Dr. Paul Vitz wrote a book entitled Faith of the Fatherless in which he points out that after studying the lives of more than a dozen leading atheists he found that a large majority of them had a father who was present but weak, present but abusive, or absent.</i><sup id="cite_ref-vitz_141-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-vitz-141" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[142]</i></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-147" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[148]</i></a></sup> <i>Dr. Vitz also examined the lives of prominent theists who were contemporaneous to their atheist counterparts and from the same culture and in every instance these prominent theists had a good relationship with his father.</i><sup id="cite_ref-vitz_141-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-vitz-141" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[142]</i></a></sup> <i>Dr. Vitz has also stated other common factors he observed in the leading atheists he profiled: they were all intelligent and arrogant.</i><sup id="cite_ref-vitz_141-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-vitz-141" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[142]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Division in religion</i></b><i>: According to Francis Bacon, atheism is caused by "divisions in religion, if they be many; for any one main division addeth zeal to both sides, but many divisions introduce atheism."</i><sup id="cite_ref-pr_148-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-pr-148" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[149]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Learned times, peace, and prosperity</i></b><i>: Francis Bacon argued that atheism was partly caused by "Learned times, specially with peace and prosperity; for troubles and adversities do more bow men’s minds to religion."</i><sup id="cite_ref-pr_148-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-pr-148" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[149]</i></a></sup> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Judaism" title="Judaism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Jewish</i></a> <i>columnist</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Dennis_Prager" title="Dennis Prager" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Dennis Prager</i></a> <i>has stated that a causal factor of atheism is the "secular indoctrination of a generation."</i><sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-149" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[150]</i></a></sup> <i>Prager stated that "From elementary school through graduate school, only one way of looking at the world – the secular – is presented. The typical individual in the</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Western_World" title="Western World" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Western world</i></a> <i>receives as secular an indoctrination as the typical European received a religious one in the</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Middle Ages</i></a><i>."</i> <sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-150" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[151]</i></a></sup> <i>Atheists and secularists rarely point out that universities such as</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Harvard" title="Harvard" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Harvard</i></a><i>,</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Princeton" title="Princeton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Princeton</i></a><i>,</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Oxford" title="Oxford" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Oxford</i></a><i>,</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Cambridge" title="Cambridge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Cambridge</i></a><i>, and many others were founded by Christians.</i><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-151" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[152]</i></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-152" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>[153]</i></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><i>Negative experiences with</i> <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Theism" title="Theism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>theists</i></a></b></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Scientism" title="Scientism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><i>Scientism</i></a><i>:</i></b> <i>Science has in many ways become a new god.</i><sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><i><a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism#cite_note-153" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[154]</a>"</i></sup></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are in week three.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees
in the garden?" The woman answered the serpent: "We may eat of the<br />
fruit of the trees in the garden; it…</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Welcome back Kiddies.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are in week three.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here we go!!!!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent
asked the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees<br />
in the garden?" The woman answered the serpent: "We may eat of the<br />
fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the<br />
middle of the garden that God said, 'You shall not eat it or even touch it,<br />
lest you die.'"But the serpent said to the woman: "You certainly will<br />
not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be<br />
opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad."<br />
The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and<br />
desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she<br />
also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes<br />
of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they<br />
sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.”</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is now a snake that can talk. Is Eve high? I mean that she is naked in a garden with Adam, her friend with
benefits, and she has nothing better to do but to talk to a snake? Right . . . “From that tree you shall not<br />
eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” That is quoted<br />
by ‘God’ from Genesis 2:17. Yes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">doomed</i> to die not that you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">will die</i>. So, Adam has nothing better to do but eat<br />
some fruit. So he was taken time out of<br />
his very busy schedule to hang out with his wife. How does Adam and Eve suddenly know how to<br />
create clothes, loincloths of all things?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“When they heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of the day,
the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the<br />
garden. The LORD God then called to the man and asked him, "Where are<br />
you?" He answered, "I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid,<br />
because I was naked, so I hid myself." Then he asked, "Who told you<br />
that you were naked? You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had<br />
forbidden you to eat!" The man replied, "The woman whom you put here<br />
with me--she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it." The LORD God then<br />
asked the woman, "Why did you do such a thing?" The woman answered,<br />
"The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it." Then the LORD God said<br />
to the serpent: "Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all<br />
the animals and from all the wild creatures; On your belly shall you crawl, and<br />
dirt shall you eat all the days of your life.”</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ok, one thing; before it was just ‘God’ now there is ‘LORD God’. Is there really a difference
between the two? Did he get promoted for<br />
doing such a great job on the Earth? And<br />
if he did get promoted who is his boss? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><br />
</span>‘God’ can only move during the breezy time of day. Sounds like a bad way to travel. If there is no wind then ‘God’ is up a<br />
creek. ‘God’ calls to Adam and Adam is<br />
hiding. Is Adam hiding from ‘God’ a game<br />
like hide-n-seek or is it that Adam does not want his ‘Ribs’ pulled out? ‘God’ is now high and mighty so he yells at<br />
Adam. What does Adam do? Blames it on his wife. And when ‘God’ yells at Eve, she blames a<br />
snake. Alright. Did snakes have legs before this time or<br />
what?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike
at your head, while you strike at his heel." To the woman he said: "I<br />
will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring forth<br />
children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall be your<br />
master." To the man he said: "Because you listened to your wife and<br />
ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, "Cursed be the<br />
ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your<br />
life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, as you eat of the plants<br />
of the field. By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, Until you<br />
return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt, and to dirt<br />
you shall return."”</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Umm, alright . . . . Is ‘God’ talking to man or to the snake in the first line? Not quite sure what
that passage means there. . . . The husband is the master, huh? Sounds oddly sexist, doesn’t it? Was childbearing not as painful as<br />
before? And where ARE the children of<br />
the previous non painful bearing? Since<br />
Adam listened to Eve, ‘God’ is sad now. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“And since you listened to your wife, you<br />
shall not pull out your own ‘rib’, because I’m jealous of you and Eve.”</i> The lesson you should go home with is that<br />
agriculture was not with the advancement of technology and society, but because<br />
you and your wife at fruit. Yea, logic<br />
there Christians.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">“The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living. For the man and his
wife the LORD God made leather garments, with which he clothed them. Then the<br />
LORD God said: "See! The man has become like one of us, knowing what is<br />
good and what is bad! Therefore, he must not be allowed to put out his hand to<br />
take fruit from the tree of life also, and thus eat of it and live<br />
forever." The LORD God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to<br />
till the ground from which he had been taken. When he expelled the man, he<br />
settled him east of the garden of Eden; and he stationed the cherubim and the<br />
fiery revolving sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.”</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">‘God’ is now a tailor. Creator, Geneticist, Surgeon, and now Tailor. What will he do next? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">US!?!?!?!???!??!</b> When did singular become plural?!?!? Is this God’s
boss on the line, now? Man cannot eat<br />
from the tree of life and live forever. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><br />
</span>Um, ok. Was that an internal conversation between Gods’ split<br />
personalities? Man is settled east of<br />
the garden of Eden, and settles guards and a revolving sword of fire. Hell, the fiery would have just scared the .<br />
. . the Winne the Pooh out of man.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chapter three is finished!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What will happen next; a murder, perhaps?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tune in next time for the greatest show on Earth:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Defeating the Bible, Once Chapter at a Time!</p>Defeating the Bible--One Chapter at a Time (Genesis Chapter 2) Part 4tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-02-11:2182797:BlogPost:7211652010-02-11T01:09:09.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">NOD!?!?!?!??! Any Command and Conquer fans here, reading this? I need to contact GDI. Was Eden so green because it was made of tiberium? Is Kane there? Alright so the Garden of Eden stretches from Africa to Iraq area to Eastern Turkey.…</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">NOD!?!?!?!??! Any Command and Conquer fans here, reading this? I need to contact GDI. Was Eden so green because it was made of tiberium? Is Kane there? Alright so the Garden of Eden stretches from Africa to Iraq area to Eastern Turkey.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">“The LORD God gave man this order: "You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die." The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man. So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, the man said: "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man' this one has been taken." That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame.”</font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">Have any of you met a child? If you say not to do something, the child will do it. If you tell them to do something they won’t. Simple. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">It is not good for the man to be alone.</i>” Why is it, after 2,000 years, we have created a prison system in which man is alone?? Yea, animals will make man feel better about being alone, in a Garden, naked, with this really big guy watching over him. Think about it; man and a male God, in the middle of nowhere . . . alone. Brokeback Mountain tent scene. Just sayin’. Man made all the names for the animals. Is this common names or scientific names? Cattle, birds, wild animals. Were these animals there, or were they magically created and jumped into existence out of nowhere. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">And so God put man into a deep sleep and sent every creature unto man, to make sweet monkey love, because God has a twisted sense of humour.</i>” What? You didn’t see that line? It’s right there. Anyway, God just did surgery. Doctor, Geneticist, and Creator all rolled into one. He took a rib and closed it with flesh. Of course, you close it with flesh. If not flesh, was he gonna use rubber. No, he’ll just use a piece of the cow and cover up the hole. So, woman is borne out of man. Feminists, get ready. Just goes to show you that the bible is ‘male-oriented’. Woman is there while man and God get busy in the tent, pulling out their ‘ribs’.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">What will happen in week three?</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">Tune in next time for a new exciting adventure in: </font></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">Now Eden is in Turkey, Eastern Turkey. Um weren’t we just in Africa? I could have sworn we were just in Africa. We SO were!! Okay, but isn’t the Pishon still leading toward Kuwait? Does the Pishon start in Africa and then move all the way up to Turkey? Here’s another one:…</font></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">Now Eden is in Turkey, Eastern Turkey. Um weren’t we just in Africa? I could have sworn we were just in Africa. We SO were!! Okay, but isn’t the Pishon still leading toward Kuwait? Does the Pishon start in Africa and then move all the way up to Turkey? Here’s another one: </font></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">By reading this map the Garden of Eden is in Africa. Just below Ethiopia, Kenya and southern Somalia, and everything down from that. Is Eden in Kenya or the entire eastern coast of Africa? Little vague here on directions, ya know? How about this one?…</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">By reading this map the Garden of Eden is in Africa. Just below Ethiopia, Kenya and southern Somalia, and everything down from that. Is Eden in Kenya or the entire eastern coast of Africa? Little vague here on directions, ya know? How about this one?</font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><img alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/RGG4bkCk*4dYgvoMNik7SaCdjQB87MVL2LH9jlo0VxRTtNgXpiGZbSuIZHveNEYxv6lFrOpnUYiMLYQhIjatdIClI2BiDMaS/eden.gif"/></p>Defeating the Bible--One Chapter at a Time (Genesis Chapter 2) Part 1tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-02-10:2182797:BlogPost:7199972010-02-10T04:01:00.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">So this is the reason why I cannot buy any novelty items on Sunday? I mean, every single business—with the exception of McDonalds and Wal-Mart—is closed every Sunday. How do people get business? How hard is it to create the world in 6 days? And for that matter, how IS the shape of the world? From what we saw last week, the state of the Earth is pretty poor. It looks like God threw something hastily together and threw it into space. It was if Earth had to be made at Midnight and God started at 11:59.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">Um, question—didn’t we learn that man was created on the 6<sup>th</sup> day? Is this the 6<sup>th</sup> day or the 7<sup>th</sup> or what? Very vague on the timeline here. So even though we have plants, they are not growing. Did the Christian God take gardening 101? Plants that get no water = death. Ok so now we have a planet with no greenery and now man is made of clay. Does this not remind you of the Greeks? Prometheus—along with his brother Epimethus—created mankind. Out of clay! I think the Christian God did a bit of plagiarizing.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">“Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and he placed there the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. A river rises in Eden to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches.”</font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">“A river rises in Eden to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches. The name of the first is the Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is excellent; bdellium and lapis lazuli are also there. The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates. The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.”</font></i></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><img style="WIDTH: 499px; HEIGHT: 432px" height="548" alt="" src="http://api.ning.com/files/CGRCmmf*qiviOwXSqp8vsOUBu7XDzSTxS5qnfMpwWczXmiBvhpJwADxW2rrVV8XrhH-qmXOZkw2uqqrqnThNnFeMjAc77QXi/figure6.gif?width=721" width="655"/></span></font></font></font></p>Defeating the Bible--One Chapter at a Time (Genesis Chapter 1)tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2010-01-19:2182797:BlogPost:6919502010-01-19T02:35:03.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
This is to become a new segment I will be posting on Think Atheist and on Atheist Nexus.<br />
The point of this new series of blog posts would be the weekly defeating of a chapter of the Christian Bible.<br />
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That said, let us start; in the beginning. (Pun intended)<br />
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In the first chapter of Genesis the creation of the world—in the Christian view—takes six days with one day for relaxation.<br />
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<i>“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness…</i>
This is to become a new segment I will be posting on Think Atheist and on Atheist Nexus.<br />
The point of this new series of blog posts would be the weekly defeating of a chapter of the Christian Bible.<br />
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That said, let us start; in the beginning. (Pun intended)<br />
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In the first chapter of Genesis the creation of the world—in the Christian view—takes six days with one day for relaxation.<br />
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<i>“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." Thus evening came, and morning followed--the first day.”</i><br />
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Christianity, meet the Big Bang<br />
The four major forces in the universe are: Electromagnetic energy, Gravity, and Strong and Weak Nuclear force. The originals; existing in harmony pre-Big Bang. Gravity split and the force of the split was powerful enough to cause the Big Bang. That was the beginning! About 9.2 billion years After the Big Bang, our solar system was created. So, the Christians expect people to believe that the first day was about 9.2 billion years. Um, Sorry Christians that does not make sense.<br />
The description of the Earth, they speak of water and wind. Earth is also a formless wasteland. Formless, no form, so no shape, if you will. So imagine a chunk of water just floating in space; but there is wind. So it’s a chunk of water floating in space with an atmosphere around it. Don’t forget there is no sun. So we have at the end of day one, water with an atmosphere going around the sun. Let’s move on to day two.<br />
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<i>“Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other." And so it happened: God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it. God called the dome "the sky." Evening came, and morning followed--the second day.”</i><br />
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There is water, a Dome and then water. Now we have water on top of the dome and water under the dome with an atmosphere going around the sun. The dome is now called the sky. That means if we go up far enough we reach water. This would be impossible the pressure of water pressing down on us would crush us. Water pressure formula is P = a+l*g*h. P = water pressure (hydrostatic) a = atmospheric pressure at water's surface l = water density g = gravitational acceleration. Water pressure times by 0.014 to express pressure in pounds per square inch units. Moving on the third day.<br />
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<i>“Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear." And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. God called the dry land "the earth," and the basin of the water he called "the sea." God saw how good it was. Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it." And so it happened: the earth brought forth every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree on earth that bears fruit with its seed in it. God saw how good it was. Evening came, and morning followed--the third day.”</i><br />
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Now there is land, land has been created. Now there is land and a sea, then the ‘Sky’, then water, then an atmosphere going around the sun. Very vague on the ‘Earth’: do they mean Ur, the original land mass created 3 billion years ago, or the ‘earth as of now’? Plants and fruits only from seeds, huh? Where, then, do coconuts, bananas, limes, pineapples, navel oranges, etc. come from? Were they magically produced, or are they just figments of our imagination? What of plants that produce through spores or asexually? We forgot fungus. How did fungus get here, Christians? How about Algae? Algae have no seeds. 1.3 billion years ago plants came around. 1.6 billion Years ago algae was first. Did we just skip over point 3 billion years? Let’s just go on to the next day, since you and I need a break . . .<br />
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<i>“Then God said: "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the fixed times, the days and the years, and serve as luminaries in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth." And so it happened: God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night; and he made the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky, to shed light upon the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw how good it was. Evening came, and morning followed--the fourth day.”</i><br />
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Whoa, what the hell just happened? So there is no sun or stars as I assumed earlier? So Earth as first then the rest of the universe caught up with us? The sun is 4.57 billion years old. The moon is 4.5 billion years ago. The Earth is 4.45 billion years old. ‘HE0107-5240’ is the oldest star in existence; how old? Try about 14 billion years old. Created from pure elements left over from the Big Bang. Moving on . . .<br />
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<i>“Then God said, "Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures, and on the earth let birds fly beneath the dome of the sky." And so it happened: God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of swimming creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw how good it was, and God blessed them, saying, "Be fertile, multiply, and fill the water of the seas; and let the birds multiply on the earth." Evening came, and morning followed--the fifth day.”</i><br />
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Birds came around 150 million years ago, and life itself began 4 billion years ago. Can you see the problem here? So there is no mention of the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, the Late Devonian extinction, the Permian-Triassic extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction? All sea creature and all birds are created at this time. Why are animals extinct then?<br />
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<i>“Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals of all kinds." And so it happened: God made all kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth. God saw how good it was. Then God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground." God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth." God also said: "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food." And so it happened. God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed--the sixth day.”</i><br />
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So it is, in order now: Water, sky, land, plants, sun, birds and sea creatures, then land mammals, then us. Modern animals come on the scene 114 million years ago. The human race comes around 5 million years ago. Homo sapiens don’t come around until 250,000 years ago. Animal domestication and plant cultivation happened 18,000 years ago. Can we see the problem? Even the dull people can count. Christians, this is wrong, on so many levels. For me to refute the first chapter of Genesis completely, it would take me years. I will leave you Christians with a little quote.<br />
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“Stupidity vanishes before Scientific Thought”—Andrew Lafont<br />
Viva AtheismThe Pope, the Church, the Inquistion and a Cuptag:www.atheistnexus.org,2009-12-04:2182797:BlogPost:6317692009-12-04T03:56:51.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<a href="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0029.html">http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0029.html</a><br />
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<i>Issue: What role did the inquisition play in the Catholic Church?<br />
Response: According to Pope John Paul II, “The Inquisition belongs to a tormented phase in the history of the Church, which . . . Christians [should] examine in a spirit of sincerity and open-mindedness.”</i><br />
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<u><b>Christians [should] examine in a spirit of sincerity and…</b></u>
<a href="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0029.html">http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0029.html</a><br />
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<i>Issue: What role did the inquisition play in the Catholic Church?<br />
Response: According to Pope John Paul II, “The Inquisition belongs to a tormented phase in the history of the Church, which . . . Christians [should] examine in a spirit of sincerity and open-mindedness.”</i><br />
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<u><b>Christians [should] examine in a spirit of sincerity and open-mindedness.</b></u><br />
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WHAT!?!?!?<br />
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Are 'Theists' just stupid or on drugs?<br />
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This seems like a sequal to "Two girls and a Cup".<br />
It's Called: "The Pope, the Church, the Inquistion and a Cup" (A bit wordy, but . . . )<br />
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I cannot comment on such a level of stupidity. I . . . I um, cannot.<br />
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How 'Bout Article 6 from The Tribunal papers: <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/imtconst.asp#art6">http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/imtconst.asp#art6</a><br />
And match this to the Inquisition (The link at the top)<br />
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And play Match Game!!!<br />
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Viva AtheismWe are on the Rise! (Atheists)tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2009-11-02:2182797:BlogPost:5799272009-11-02T02:46:44.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
Here ya go, Atheist Nexus, a map of the U.S. with Atheism on the rise<br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-ARIS-faith-survey_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-ARIS-faith-survey_N.htm</a><br />
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<i>"The world needs Religion as much as The Dead need Politics"</i><br />
~Andrew L.<br />
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Viva Atheism
Here ya go, Atheist Nexus, a map of the U.S. with Atheism on the rise<br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-ARIS-faith-survey_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-ARIS-faith-survey_N.htm</a><br />
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<i>"The world needs Religion as much as The Dead need Politics"</i><br />
~Andrew L.<br />
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Viva AtheismThe Never Ending Story!tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2009-10-29:2182797:BlogPost:5748872009-10-29T02:02:48.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<i>It the Never ending stooooooooorrryyyyyyyy!!!!</i> (And for those of you who have not seen the movie, Don't Watch It!)<br />
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Atheism Vs Theism is an old debate, a long and old debate.<br />
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I am a dedicated Atheist, I will fight with Theism on every front, but this old tired process of Atheism being the minority is getting on my Nerves!<br />
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Why must Atheism continue to be the minority?<br />
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The Debate reminds me of an analogy: Two kids are sitting in a sandbox, pulling on a ball, and each is saying "MINE,…
<i>It the Never ending stooooooooorrryyyyyyyy!!!!</i> (And for those of you who have not seen the movie, Don't Watch It!)<br />
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Atheism Vs Theism is an old debate, a long and old debate.<br />
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I am a dedicated Atheist, I will fight with Theism on every front, but this old tired process of Atheism being the minority is getting on my Nerves!<br />
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Why must Atheism continue to be the minority?<br />
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The Debate reminds me of an analogy: Two kids are sitting in a sandbox, pulling on a ball, and each is saying "MINE, MINE!!!" But the Theist side is a Giant Brute.<br />
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I propose a new way of thinking, how about the ending of <b>all Theist Religions</b>?<br />
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It should not be that hard, hell we survived this long.<br />
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It is time, Atheists, it is time to stop Religion. It is time that Atheism should take the center stage.<br />
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I know that this will work, just trust me on this.<br />
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I will admit, it is a bit radical, and somewhat dangerous, but now is the time; we cannot wait another decade; we cannot!<br />
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If you shun me, I will fight alone. Hell, I'm an oxymoron already: An Atheist singing in a choir that sings about 'God'.<br />
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I offer my idea unto you, the people. Support me or shun me, it matters not.<br />
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Knowledge is Power, and that Power will Crush Theism<br />
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Viva Atheism!!Genesis Chapter One Challengetag:www.atheistnexus.org,2009-10-21:2182797:BlogPost:5627682009-10-21T00:17:56.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
I am offering a challenge to those here on Atheist Nexus.<br />
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Take Chapter One from the book of Genesis; just chapter one, and line it up with the timeline of the the Universe. I want to see if <b>anyone</b> can match up just chapter one.<br />
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If you think with a Atheist but broad mind, you can make it to the third day, after that you'll look at the chapter and wonder: <i>what the hell are they talking about?</i><br />
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If you think with a Atheist and pin-pricking mind you won't make it past day one.<br />
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From…
I am offering a challenge to those here on Atheist Nexus.<br />
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Take Chapter One from the book of Genesis; just chapter one, and line it up with the timeline of the the Universe. I want to see if <b>anyone</b> can match up just chapter one.<br />
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If you think with a Atheist but broad mind, you can make it to the third day, after that you'll look at the chapter and wonder: <i>what the hell are they talking about?</i><br />
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If you think with a Atheist and pin-pricking mind you won't make it past day one.<br />
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From what I did, 13.7 Billion years ago to 250,000 years ago is the 6 supposed days; and that is a major broad sense.<br />
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(Sorry for the short Blog post, being tired and sick is not a good combo meal)<br />
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So there ya go, the challenge is open for you to try and solve.One down, one to go!tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2009-10-17:2182797:BlogPost:5566682009-10-17T02:30:00.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
Now all that is left is that pesky Pledge of Allegiance. The original version was published on October 11, 1892 and the current version was published on June 14, 1954.<br />
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The words to the current Pledge of Allegiance are:<br />
I pledge allegiance to the Flag<br />
of the United States of America,<br />
and to the Republic for which it stands:<br />
one Nation under God, indivisible,<br />
With Liberty and Justice for all.<br />
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Now, I will not say that the entire Pledge is wrong. Just one section bugs me; ‘Under God’. I am just…
Now all that is left is that pesky Pledge of Allegiance. The original version was published on October 11, 1892 and the current version was published on June 14, 1954.<br />
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The words to the current Pledge of Allegiance are:<br />
I pledge allegiance to the Flag<br />
of the United States of America,<br />
and to the Republic for which it stands:<br />
one Nation under God, indivisible,<br />
With Liberty and Justice for all.<br />
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Now, I will not say that the entire Pledge is wrong. Just one section bugs me; ‘Under God’. I am just looking to take ‘God’ out of the Pledge.<br />
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Here is my idea:<br />
I pledge allegiance to the Flag<br />
Of the United States of America,<br />
And to the Republic for which it stands:<br />
One Nation under the present government, indivisible,<br />
With Liberty and Justice for all.<br />
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Now tell me, my Atheist friends, does that seem like a better pledge, than the current?<br />
Tell me your ideas for a new pledge; Hell, we could have a contest, no?<br />
We are making headway people! Let’s continue to spread Enlightenment to the ignorant and crush ‘Theism’.<br />
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Viva AtheismThe Age of 'Theists' is Over!tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2009-10-14:2182797:BlogPost:5517292009-10-14T01:03:24.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<b>Theism</b> (As per Dictonary.com) is “the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation”. Those who follow this age old belief are, as I call them, 'Theists'. What good has 'Theists' offered to the world? Well, they have offered only destruction to this world. They have killed MILLIONS over petty, 'Religious Wars'. They stoop to under-handed attempts to block out any thought that goes against anything they say, under their false banner of…
<b>Theism</b> (As per Dictonary.com) is “the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation”. Those who follow this age old belief are, as I call them, 'Theists'. What good has 'Theists' offered to the world? Well, they have offered only destruction to this world. They have killed MILLIONS over petty, 'Religious Wars'. They stoop to under-handed attempts to block out any thought that goes against anything they say, under their false banner of hope.<br />
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Theism is just a house for those who are ignorant, and those who like to control those who are ignorant. I propose that to those who read this blog, offer Enlightenment of knowledge to those who are ignorant, offer them true hope in Atheism, and without ignorant people, Theism will crumble in on itself. It is time that Atheism should be on the main stage with the other Religions and remove the 'Theist' banner of false hope!<br />
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We might be ridiculed by others, but we have always been ridiculed by 'Theism'. It is now the Age of Knowledge, the Age of Atheism, and The Age of Anti-Theists. 'Theists' had their chance and they blew it. 'Theism' is just a relic of the past and we must not make the same mistakes as they did; we must not be just another failed attempt to stop the evils of 'Theism'! It is our time, Our Age! The Age of Darkness, The Age of Ignorance, The Age of 'Theists' is over!<br />
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The Age of Enlightenment has just begun. <i>Join Us</i>.<br />
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Viva Atheism.Supposed "Morality" of Christians...tag:www.atheistnexus.org,2009-10-09:2182797:BlogPost:5433462009-10-09T01:30:00.000ZAndrew Lafonthttp://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/AndrewLafont
<b>Christians</b> believe that without God, Atheists have no morality, and therefore the Root of All Evil.<br></br>
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Really? Do they believe that Atheists are immoral? Well, Let's take a look at the <b>Christians</b> own morality.<br></br>
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Once upon a time, there was a man, about 5' 6". He lead a revolution for the sake of his people, with the extinction of the old monarchy. He later crowned himself 'Emperor' and lead a war, which his empire almost stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to…
<b>Christians</b> believe that without God, Atheists have no morality, and therefore the Root of All Evil.<br/>
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Really? Do they believe that Atheists are immoral? Well, Let's take a look at the <b>Christians</b> own morality.<br/>
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Once upon a time, there was a man, about 5' 6". He lead a revolution for the sake of his people, with the extinction of the old monarchy. He later crowned himself 'Emperor' and lead a war, which his empire almost stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Ocean. He killed countless people.<br/>
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His name?<br/>
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Napoleon<br/>
<b>Christian</b><br/>
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Here's another one,<br/>
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He had a bushy mustache, which eventually became a symbol for him. He was exiled to prison for 3 years in the cold wasteland of his country. He returned and had his rival executed. With him in power he lead is country to become a super power. He defeated a great evil from the west. He held a country that nearly stretched from coast to coast. In the 8 years after the war he massacred his own people, entire towns destroyed.<br/>
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His name?<br/>
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Stalin<br/>
<b>Christian</b><div><b><br/></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And now the King.</span></b><div><br/></div>
<div>He helped his people out of poverty. He single-handedly made his country a superpower in a short amount of time. But something happened. He became evil and twisted by his power and he lead a war that involved all the nations of the world. He killed 5.9 Million Jews, 2-3 Million Soviet POW'S, 1.8-2 Million Ethnic Poles, 220,000-1.5 Million Romania's, 200,000-250,000 Thousand Disabled, 80,000 Thousand Freemasons, 5,000-15,000 Thousand Homosexuals, 2,500-5,000 Thousand Jehovah's Witnesses, 200,000 Thousand Political and Religious Dissenters, 6-26 Million Russian Citizens, and Killed 67% of an entire religious faction! Again, 581,000 Yugoslav's, and 1,670,000 Million East Slavs.</div>
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<div>His Name:</div>
<div>Hitler</div>
<div><b>Christian</b></div>
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So now is the choice of the people.<br/>
<i>Who *really* is the immoral one?</i></div>
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